'Crazy Hair Day' at Mobile elementary school: A photo special

View full size(Submitted Photo/Lisa Hafizi)Second-graders Mary Potter Partsch, Sarah Rose, Reagan Baker, Celeste Hicks, and Macy Ridenoure dress up for "Crazy Hair" Day at E.R. Dickson Elementary School on Friday, Feb. 5, 2010, in Mobile, Ala., where students earned the special day by reading and taking quizzes on more than 8,000 books for the month of January.
View full size(Submitted Photo/Lisa Hafizi)Missy Nolen, principal at E.R. Dickson Elementary School in Mobile, Ala., and second-grader Paige Love show off their styles during Crazy Hair Day at the school on Friday, Feb. 5, 2009.MOBILE, Ala. -- Read a bunch of books, take quizzes on them and what do you get? Why, a day when you can come to school with just plain crazy hair.

E.R.DicksonElementary School celebrated "Crazy Hair Day" today for students who earned the right to come to school with loco locks by reading and taking quizzes on more than 8,000
books for the month of January.

The school goal was to read 4,000 books but the
students did better, doubling that amount, E.R. Dickson officials said.